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February 18, 1979: Sahara Desert Gets Snow

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1979 – for the first and only time in recorded history, it snowed in the Sahara Desert. It was in Southern Algeria and the storm only lasted a half hour. The snow melted off quickly.

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Corel ships WordPerfect Suite for DOS.
JavaScript v 2.0 is released
White House website recovery.gov is launched

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February 15, 1946: ENIAC Debuts at University of Pennsylvania

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1946 – J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly debut the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC). 17,468 vacuum tubes at 100,000 pulses/second. It was part of a $400,000 contract from the U.S. Army.

The computer was actually announced on Feb 14th, but the dedication happened on the 15th.

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Intel demonstrates the Willamette processor
Kevin Mitnik is arrested by the FBI
The Pirate Bay trial begins in Sweeden

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February 12, 2001: Anna Kournikova Virus Hits Internet

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2001– Jan de Wit – a.k.a. “OnTheFly” sends out an email stating that it is a picture of the famous tennis player. Of course it turned out to be a a Worm that takes down tens of thousands of computers. Most companies will shut off their email to the world just to prevent from getting it. De Wit would then be arrested two days later and sentenced to 150 hours community service.

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Packard Bell employee opens fire
Windows NT 4.0 and 2000 source code is leaked

February 11 - AT&T asks for an injunction against Samsung

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February 11, 2012: Apple Tries to Ban Samsung, JOSS Taken Down

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2012 – Apple began the lawsuits in the US of Samsung made Galaxy Nexus citing patent violations back in April 15, 2011. This would span across the Nexus S, Epic 4G, Galaxy S 4G and Galaxy Tab. A lawsuit that has gone back and forth between the two companies. The patents in question were for data tapping, a Siri search method, a slide-to-unlock patent and a word completion patent. On this day, Apple officially asks for a preliminary injunction for Samsung sales in the US .

1966 – The Johnniac Open Shop System (JOSS) was taken down by the RAND Corporation. JOSS was set up to relive bottlenecks in programming batches, but more and newer work pretty much took the JOSS to the limit and ultimately became a bottleneck. Therefore, JOSS was taken offline indefinitely.JOSS began operation in 1953.

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Digital Computers discontinues the Rainbow
CRUX Linux 0.5.3 Released
Starbucks announces they will switch from T-Mobile to AT&T at their stores.

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February 9, 1977: Atari – My First Computer Keyboard

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1977 – The “My First Computer” was an add-on to the Atari 2600. This device would turn the game console into a full computer. For $90 you could get 8K of RAM (expandable to 32K), 16K ROM and 8K BASIC.

The My First Computer was to tap into the Video Console System (VCS) in which over 10 million have been sold. The keyboard would attach to the top of the console – using the cartridge slot. The rubber chicklet keypad would allow you to type using the QWERTY style.

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Craig Neidorf (Knight Lightning) is arrested
Bandai unveils the Pippen Atmark Computer
Yahoo refuses Microsoft’s offer

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February 8, 1996: 24 Hours in Cyberspace Book

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1996 – It was the single largest online event at the time. 24 Hours in cyberspace was coordinated by Rick Smolan to capture photos representing a day in the life of the internet user. Photos would be handed in from around the world and put out on Cyber24 dot com. The website is no longer in service and there is no good Internet Archive to the site.

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The Communications Deceny Act becomes Law
The Harvard Mark I

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February 7, 2000: Mafiaboy DDos on Yahoo, 6 Other Web Sites

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2000 – 10:15 AM, Mafiaboy – Michael Demon Calce, a 16 year old hacker from Canada – targets 7 sites with a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS). Amazon, Buy.com, CNN, eBay, E*E*Trade, MSN and ZDNet are all affected. Mafiaboy would be sentenced to eight months in a youth detention center for this DDoS.

The project was called Rivolta (riot in Itallian). Yahoo! was his first target.

Calce later said he downloaded the application but didn’t realize he ran it so he went to school. When he came back his computer was crashed and he had no idea what happened.

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1983 – Atari Sues Coleco
Gary Kasparov and Deep Junior 7 end in a tie
the Cell Processor

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February 6, 1971: Alan Shepard Golfs on Moon, 1985: Steve Wozniak Leaves Apple

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1971 – Moving to the Space side of Geek, Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard hits the first golf ball on the Moon. He used a six-iron attached to a sample collection tool. He hit 2 balls, in which the second would have made Happy Gillmore look bad. Of course, the moon has 1/6 the gravity as the Earth does.

Alan B. Shepard Jr. was also the second person to travel in space and the fifth person to walk on the moon. His Apollo 14 piloting of the lander was deemed the most accurate.

Shepard died in 1998.

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1985 – Steve Wozniak decides to leave Apple. He remains a shareholder on the board. He will come back as an advisor when Gil Amelio takes the reigns.
2004 – Austrailian officials raid Kazaa on copyright infringement.

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